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Intimate Strangers

The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy

Margaret Laurence (Author), Gabrielle Roy (Author), Paul G. Socken (Editor)

With a thoughtful introduction by Paul G. Socken, these lovely and intimate letters record the moving, affectionate friendship between two remarkable women.

Writing Grief

Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning

Christian Riegel (Author)

As an important study of one aspect of Laurence's oeuvre, Writing Grief not only illustrates how Laurence's own preoccupations with mourning are figured, but also how different ways of working through grief result in renewed potential for consolation and connection, and "a renewed definition of self."

Toward Defining the Prairies

Region, Culture, and History

Robert Wardhaugh (Editor)

Making it Home

Place in Canadian Literature

Deborah Keahey (Author)

Wild Mother Dancing

Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

Di Brandt (Author)

Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon.